LaGuardia trash station plan flies in face of sense, pols say

That was the message from Queens' congressional delegation in demanding that the city scrap a plan to build a garbage transfer terminal in College Point - some 2,000 feet from a LaGuardia Airport runway.

"The issues that we are being asked to reconsider are issues that we have considered," Czwartacky told the Daily News. "Our design reflects consideration of those issues."

The terminal will be on the waterfront, off 31st Ave. It will replace a terminal that operated there from 1954 until 2001.

The new facility will be fully enclosed and handle garbage from about 200 trucks a day that will arrive on a staggered schedule, ensuring that they will not queue up outside the building, Czwartacky said.

Garbage will be unloaded inside the building and packed into sealed containers that will be loaded onto barge.